append text on second word

[dbase77]

Hi,

I have a file like this:

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set trimspool on
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spool filename
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spool off
exit

What I want to do is to append a full path directory to the filename only. So it should read like this:

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set trimspool on
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spool /home/john/filename
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spool off
exit

Is ther any way I can do this in awk or sed? I tried to grep for "spool" but the result I got back was too many lines since the file itself contains more than 1 spool word. Sometimes it contains only 2 spool words like "spool filename and spool off".

Thank you in advance.

regards,
dbase77

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
awk '
$1=="spool" && $2!="off"{print "spool /home/john/"$2;next}
{print}
' /path/to/input > output

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[dbase77]

Hi,

sweet. It worked the way I want it. You the best. Thank you very much.

Why it didnt pick up word trimspool? coz I tried
awk '/spool/ {print}' and it picked up all the occurence of spool word.

regards,
dbase77

 

[PHV]

man awk

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[dbase77]

ok thanks again.